Hair clip



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HAIR our Filed July V15, 1938 5050/7717 PO/G'A I [/7 z enfar PatentedJuly 4, 1939 PATENT OFFICE HAIR CLIP Bohumil Polak, Prague,Czechoslovakia Application July 13, 1938, Serial No. 218,968 InCzechoslovakia December 10, 1937 1 Claim.

The invention relates to 'a hair clip consisting of two flat spring armssecured together at one end by means of a' loop portion and adapted tomove away from each other when the clip is 5 opened. The clip mayadvantageously be formed by bending a single spring member back uponitself. In order to close such clips special closing devices havehitherto been provided at the free ends of the spring arms or these ends0 were adapted to cross by means of offsets and bends. In both cases theproduction of the hair clips is complicated and expensive;

According to the invention one of the spring arms is provided at itsfree end with a spherical 15 button and the other spring arm is slightlyarched at its free end and the arched part thus formed is provided withan aperture. The button snaps detachably into this aperture and lies inthe arched part of the adjacent spring arm in the closed position of theclip so that it does not project below the underside of the clip and isthus secured against involuntaryopening.

Longitudinal slots are also formed in the, apertured spring arm, whichextend from the aper- 25 ture in the arm longitudinallyof the arm.

spring action. A spherical hollow button t is formed by stamping thefree end of the flat spring arm 4 and an aperture I and longitudinalslots 8 areformed by punching the free end of the flat spring arm 3.Thus the clip can be closed by snapping the hollow button into theaperture and opened by lifting the hollow button out of the aperture.The aperture 1 is formed in an arched part of the spring arm 3 so thatin the closed position of the clip the hollow button 8 does not projectbelow the underside of the clip and the clip is thus secured againstinvoluntary opening.

What I claim and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesis:

In a hair clip having two resilient legs joined by a loop at one endthereof which imparts to the legs a tendency to spring apart from eachother, said legs being provided adjacent to their other ends withcorresponding male and female parts of a locking device of a snapfastener type with the male part upon the one leg formed by a lug andthe female part upon the other leg formed by a loop capable of receivingsaid lug into the same and retaining the same in looking engagement, thefeatures comprising small end slot portions extended longitudinally fromthe ends of the loop forming the female part of the locking device so asto increase the resiliency of the sides of said loop, an exteriorLyconcavely arched portion upon said other leg containing said female partor slotted loop so as to raise said loop and prevent the male part orlug of the locking device from projecting beyond the Beneral outline ofthe lower supporting surface of as the clip when the latter is in closedposition.

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